A few years ago I received my router table for Christmas from my wife. It was a bit expensive and thus my mother, my wife's father and my wife went in together and got all the stuff. But ...

They are not me. Their intentions were fantastic. They got a table from a manufacturer. It had steel legs which you then 2x4'd into a table. The nice router table top you see, the router mounting plate as well as the very, very nice Incra precision jig system, they purchased all that also. But a steel legged, 2x4 table was not my dream. They did not realize that but understood. We took that back. From there I had to find plans and modify the found plans to make my own dream table. Also, I would need a router.

Well ... other projects are before my own personal projects. These items sat in my shop for about two years. I did purchase the excellent quality router I desired after about 1 year - that also sat. I had and have a smaller router which I used and stil use for hand held functions. But for the router table I wanted a heavy duty, high horsepower router to be able to use large bits for edging treatments, molding production, etc. Finally, two years after getting the "hardware", I managed to get the table project off the planned list and into production and reality.

The finished product is very, very nice. I am enjoying it and the table allows me to now produce joints and edge treatments I could never attempt before. I am a happy woodworker.